AMA Racing Champions

2012 was a great year for AMA and ATVA competition. Here, some of the national champions and top competitors talk about the 2012 season, look ahead to the 2013 season, and explain why AMA and ATVA competition is the best racing on the planet. No other No. 1 plate matters.

2012:

Codee Ryan Samples of Midlethian, Texas, earned the national No. 1 plate in the 51cc (4-6) Stock Limited class in the 2012 Red Bull AMA Amateur National Motocross Championships, presented by Amsoil. He also finished second in the AMA Freestone Spring Championship 50cc Stock (4-8) class and fourth in the 51cc Stock (4-6) class.

Ryder Difrancesco and Broc Walker were two of Samples' toughest competition.

"Ryder is the two-time AMA Loretta's champion along with several other championships that he has won. And we race Broc on a weekly basis and he and his family are a dedicated motofamily! Broc has several championships on his resume...," said Samples.

Samples has been racing for four years and loves this series because "it's moto and moto is our lifestyle!"

He hopes to continue racing for as long as he possibly can and plans to finish top three in the major national series.

When he is not racing, Samples enjoys playing Xbox, riding bicycles, jumping around on his pogo stick, and playing with friends.